VIDEO: Death-defying stuntman jumps from cliff with parachute embedded into his SKIN

VIDEO: Death-defying stuntman jumps from cliff with parachute embedded into his SKIN

THIS is the moment a daredevil stuntman successfully landed a parachute jump without a harness — instead clipping the parachute to piercings in his back.

Published 3rd September 2014

Hard man Stanislav Aksenov, from the Russian capital Moscow, is known for his love of BASE jumping (an acronym for the four categories of jumps — Buildings, Antennas, Spans and the Earth) and elaborate piercings and body modification.

Combining both his passions, Stanislav decided to make a jump from a steep cliff in south-central Switzerland into the Lauterbrunnen valley with the parachute harness attached directly to his piercings.

Despite the enormous G forces generated after he jumped from the cliff, the Russian man seemed to trust his back piercings not to rip free.

The dramatic video which he posted himself online shows his skin stretching under the strain of his own body weight and swinging dangerously close to the cliff during his descent.

SKIN DEEP: You can see the flesh stretching on Stanislav's back as he floats from the cliff [EUROPICS]

“This is the result of a vision that Stanislav Aksenov has for moulding two extreme activities into one freakish sport”

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After dangling from the flesh of his own back for more than two minutes, he lands safely in a field.

"This is the result of a vision that Stanislav Aksenov has for moulding two extreme activities into one freakish sport (if you want to call it a sport)," the video's caption reads.

"It is pushing the boundaries of what the mind is capable of."

Switzerland is one of only a few countries not to have banned BASE jumping, but the practice is loosely regulated, making the country - with its spectacular mountains - a magnet for extreme sports fans from all over the world.

And that has had a cost in human life. 31 people have died while BASE jumping from the steep Swiss valley in the last thirteen years.